ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the educators generally defined their jobs – training nurses to work not only within the Philippines, but "in any hospital, any setting, anywhere in the world." It embeds professional nursing education within the global nursing care chain, investigating how the production of nurse professionals occurs in a transnational context, where professions face countervailing forces beyond national borders. The chapter discusses the implications of nurse migration for Philippine nursing education, where educators work to produce professionals who are highly mobile and employable overseas. It shifts scholarly interest in nurse migration from questions of employment to employability. How does the massive outflow of nurse migrants shape the professional status, values, and knowledge associated with becoming a nurse? In addressing this question, the chapter draws from existing studies on professions and professional education.
